Cockayne. — Some Hitherto-unrecorded Planf-hahitats. -lob 



Gaya Lyallii (Hook, f.) J. E. Baker. 



South Island : Southland — Takitimu Mountains. L. C. 



Gaya ribifolia (F. v. Muell.) Cockayne. 



South Island: (1.) Marlborough — Shingly Range, the Inland Kai- 

 kouras, &c. ; Foweraker and L. C. (2.) Nelson — Tarndale; Foweraker 

 and L. C. 



The epharmonic distribution of the two species of Gaya is admirably 

 illustrated in the Wairau Valley. Proceeding from Tarndale to the 

 Rainbow, at first, and for a considerable distance, there is only G. ribifolia, 

 but quite suddenly, as the wetter district is gained, G. Lyallii is alone 

 encountered. 



Gnaphalium paludosum Petrie. 



South Island : Marlborough — Bogs and wet ground. Upper Awatere 

 Valley. Foweraker and L. C. 



Gypsophila tubulosa Boiss. 



South Island: Nelson — Neighbourhood of Hannier Plahi. on bare 

 ground of Leptosperinuin heath, C. Christensen ! 



This species has generally been considered indigenous, but I cannot 

 help thinking it is an introduced plant, since it has never been found ii> 

 really virgin country, but always in places where sheep graze. Cheese- 

 man, however (Manual, p. 62), considers it truly indigenous, and his 

 opinion must carry great weight. 



Helichrysum coralloides (Hook, f.) Benth. & Hook. f. 



South Island: (1.) Marlborough — Shingly Range, Awatere, at 1,500m. 

 altitude ; Foweraker and L. C. (2.) Nelson — Tarndale Mountain and 

 Wairau Gorge ; Foweraker and L. C. 



H. coralloides is a much more common plant than was imagined. 

 It probably occurs on all the higher dry mountains of Marlborough. 

 H. Selago is much more closely related to this species than it is to 

 H. microphyllu/n , a plant with quite slender branches, and which blooms at 

 a different season of the year. The latter also grows upon the ground as 

 well as. upon rocks, in which case, as in subalpine scrub on Shingly Range, 

 it forms an erect shrub 80 cm. tall. 



Helichrysum depressum (Hook, f.) Benth. & Hook. f. 



South Island : Marlborough — Seaward Kaikoura Mountains. L. C. 



Helichrysum Selago (Hook, f.) Benth. & Hook. f. 



South Island: Southland — On rock-face, Takitimu Mountains, at 

 about 900 m. altitude. L. C. 



If the name H. microphjllum (see plate 35a in the " Flora Novae- 

 Zelandiae ") is to be kept for the slender-stemmed late-blooming plant, then 

 the stouter-stemmed plant mentioned by Hooker, and included by him 

 (Handbook, p. 146) and by Cheeseman also (Manual, np. 342-43) in their 

 descriptions of H. microphylluui, must be removed to H. Selago, which will 

 need splitting up into varieties, if not species. For instance, the Wairau 

 Gorge plant has the leaves so hidden by white wool as to be mere shining 

 tubercles, as in H. coralloides. But in the case of a plant common on the 

 Hanmer Mountains the wool is hardly visible with the naked eve, the leaves 



